Bon Jovi

The Best St. Louis Metal Shows in May

Looking for a good place to see flashy and exciting music played at high volume, have your mind blown by dark and powerful sounds, or just stomp around like a drunken goon with your shirt off? Then a heavy metal concert might be just the place for you. Each month I'll be offering my top picks of the ... More >>

The Best St. Louis Metal Shows in March

Looking for a good place to see flashy and exciting music played at high volume, have your mind blown by dark and powerful sounds, or just stomp around like a drunken goon with your shirt off? Then a heavy metal concert might be just the place for you. Each month I'll be offering my top picks of the ... More >>

Punching Out the Overhead Lights During a Karaoke Song: What to Do Next

Karaoke can be a dangerous endeavor. What can you sing that won't make friends shun you? How can you go balls-out during your next performance? Each week in "Ask a Karaoke Host," RFT Music writer and professional karaoke host Allison Babka answers your burning questions about maximizing your melodio ... More >>

Romantic Misadventures and Song Selections for Karaoke Virgins

Karaoke can be a dangerous endeavor. What can you sing that won't make friends shun you? How can you go balls-out during your next performance? Each week in "Ask a Karaoke Host," RFT Music writer and professional karaoke host Allison Babka answers your burning questions about maximizing your melodio ... More >>

Zammuto

7:30 p.m. Monday, October 8. The Luminary Center for the Arts, 4900 Reber Place.

The Six Most Self-Aware Songs

Interesting things happen when a song realizes it is a song. Forms collapse, listeners become part of the writing process, and a track's guts become its skin. Here are the six most self-aware songs. Let us know what your favorites are, because we all know self-awareness is a common trait among those ... More >>

Nigel Godrich and Six Other Producers Who Stepped in Front of a Mic

If there was ever an example a good musical soldier, it would be Nigel Godrich. The British producer has been an essential behind-the-scenes figure with Radiohead for years and years and years, so much so that he's colliquolly referred to as a sixth member of the band. Radiohead's titanic sound sh ... More >>

Memphis: The Musical has the talent and the energy to rock the Fox. So what's missing?

Drake Darrington Will Don his Massive Bulge for One More Metal StudZ Show

Metal StudZ​Will Lackey's double life is the stuff of superheroes. He manages the video production team LumiVid in the daylight, but when the sun goes down he becomes Drake Darrington, lead singer of the spectacle act Metal StudZ. Or, at least he will channel his inner Def Leppard for one last ... More >>

Don Perry and Bonnie Spinola on the Thrill of the Hunt

Jon Scorfina​ Often, the most sincere record collectors have no professional associations with the music industry. Their collections stem from nothing but a love of music. We met this week's Last Collector Standing through Anna Zachritz of Euclid Records, who suggested two of the store's most ... More >>

One Night in Memphis

John Gradley explains how he became the karaoke master

The Ten Most Annoying Drunk-Sing-Along Songs

Wikimedia Commons​Mardi Gras is this weekend. For some, it's a reason to stay the hell away from Soulard. For others, it's the time to go on a bender for a few days. The latter scenario wreaks havoc on livers, arrest records -- and jukeboxes. Yes, throw alcohol into the mix, and sane, rational ... More >>

Show Announcements: Week of February 10

image viaThe novelty of chillwave subsided long ago, but Neon Indian's hypnagogic ennui is still compelling two years after the nascent rise and fall of the much-maligned genre. Catch their St. Louis debut on June 8 at The Firebird. ​ Apop Records *Taboo, February 23 2720 Cherokee *Bawn in th ... More >>

Is Bon Jovi Coming to St. Louis? [Updated]

​Interesting tweet from A to Z reader @gcflatt just a bit ago, asking if we had noticed a Bon Jovi show scheduled for May 22 at the Scottrade Center. Believe it or not, this was the first we had heard of it. However, a quick glance at Pollstar appears to confirm a date, and there's also a Tick ... More >>

Interview: St. Louis Drummer Chad Smith Ready to Reunite with Geezer Butler's GZR

​Last week, Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler announced he's ready to reconvene his band GZR. The latest lineup, he said, will "probably" feature Chad Smith -- the veteran St. Louis drummer, not the Red Hot Chili Peppers percussionist of the same name. Smith has been all over the local scen ... More >>

New Release Highlights for October 19: Bob Dylan Releases The Witmark Demos and The Original Mono Recordings

(New albums are typically released on Tuesdays, i.e., today. What can you spend your hard-earned pennies on this week? Find out below.) Bob Dylan's The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964​*Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 Guardian said of the Witmark Demos: "The latest Christm ... More >>

Groupon Wants You to Go See Todd Rundgren and the Fixx

​So, Todd Rundgren is playing the Roberts Orpheum Theater next Friday, September 10, and doing the albums Healing and Todd in their entirety. The other day, The Fixx was added to the show, as if to up the bizarro-synth tone of the night. This morning when I checked my email, today's side deal ... More >>

Last Collector Standing: DJs Crucial and Agile 1, The Coolest Young Parents in St. Louis

Jon ScorfinaDJs Agile 1 and Crucial with their twin boys​Rob and April Fulstone might be the two coolest young parents in St. Louis. For over ten years they've been staples in the St. Louis hip-hop scene under the monikers DJ Crucial and DJ Agile 1. Following the birth of their twin sons, Linc ... More >>

LA's genre-defying Ozomatli travels the world as musical diplomats for the U.S. Department of State

HullabaLOU Music Festival Debuts (Impressively) In Louisville This Summer

The B-52's are just one act slotted for the HullabaLOUfest​One of the best things about St. Louis is its close proximity to the summer's major music festivals. Not only do we get cool acts stopping here on their way to -- or from -- these events, we're within driving distance to Chicago (Pitch ... More >>

Review Setlist: Foreigner at the Bottleneck Blues Bar, Thursday, January 21

myspace.com/foreignermusic​Kelly Hansen, vocalist of Foreigner since 2005, is a frontman. He wields the mic stand like a sword -- or a young Steven Tyler. He struts around the stage wearing sunglasses without looking like a tool. When singing tender moments, he frames his face with clasped fis ... More >>

David Cook/The Script/Green River Ordinance

8 p.m. Tuesday, November 10. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Nervous Nights: A writer memorializes New Jersey rock innovators the Feelies on the occasion of CD reissues

Behind the Metal: Revealed: Everything you wanted to know — or didn't — about Canuck headbangers Anvil

A Countdown of the Top Ten Power Ballads of All Time

Bar of the Week: The Cat's Meow

Bryan Adams plays songs from his new album, 11, (and plenty of hits!) on Monday night at the Sheldon — acoustic!

Same Ol' Song: Club owners owe royalties for music played on their premises

Let's Stay Active

Mitch Easter's out on his own with Dynamico.

Parlour Games

Limbeck gets classical and Nick Acquisto releases a compilation of classics.

Crazy Calculus!

B-Sides analyzes the mathematics of Don Caballero's existence, calls out Bon Jovi for cliches and points you to some hot Futureheads action in the Download.

Big City Rock / October Fall / NEEDTOBREATHE

7 p.m. Monday, August 7. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).

The Darkness

One Way Ticket to Hell...and Back (Atlantic)

Less, Less, Less

Minimalism and Beyond

Slice of Life

Jon Feraro's Jersey-style pies are the real thing

We Aren't the World

A critical fatwa of Live 8

Beanie Sigel

The B.Coming (Roc-A-Fella)

The Friction Tape

Especially when it casts Fred Friction as Susan B. Anthony

Queer Eye for the Country Guy

Cowboy crooners are putting some metro-sex into their rural images

American Band

Tight melodies, true grit, a love of hair metal: The Doxies have it all

Grand Theft Audio

Radar Station discovers the soundtrack to crime

Dawg Eat Dawg

Q-95.5 and the Beat duke it out -- and the St. Louis hip-hop scene flourishes

The Kids Aren't Alright

Drugs could have saved the world from Black, Black Ocean

Piano Men

Key-ticklers at the Drake Bar and the Big Bang reinvigorate the old piano-bar concept

Black-Metal Blacklist

Is it bureaucracy, post-Sept. 11 paranoia or their own criminal records? Whatever the reason, Sweden's Marduk can't come here.

Blowin' Smoke

Ted Demme and Denis Leary are a match made in effin' heaven

STORM WARNING

The Stormtroopers of Death return to set heavy metal straight